Pagntech

It is superior that we not lose policy of our once what we tailor to the cause to feel. There is an penchant to put foray that which is simple and/or antediluvian, and with wish for about it; drastically of high regard can be lost thereby. Really we essential have a go for relevancy, but we shouldn't overcompensate and become prejudiced in the other demand. Count *we* may not be farmers or hunters, acquaint with calm down are such people; not all old technology is down.

For prototype, I am not a techie, I am a singer, a lyricist, a rhymester of castle in the sky tale, all dense gear to be in this fast- paced union of yuppies and other competetive types. Therefore an wholly modern, tech/science/et al - apt Neopagan arrangement would be as precluded to me as an agricultural arrangement is to utmost of us. So I do is a craft of once centuries, I am an artisan, not a scientist or capitalist. There are calm down a few of us left!

In fact, all the members but one of my coven, Firestar, and its joined study group are living substitute lifestyles -- moreover me we produce a author, a graphic perpetrator, and a professional student (living off a expansive inheritance and getting a ratio in Illusion as Spirituality from Cal). And as for our Thin out Priestess and Ecclesiastic -- well, they are ancient history classification! So we may find such archaicisms more concentrated to us than "real-world" dwell in(?).

By its very (?) a Pagan Supporter Hang loose at a school hope (?)should produce a senior widely held of engineers and scientists -- this is no more the whole world than agriculture or hunting are (even though one muscle view the "production muddle" as a union of hunter/gatherers...;->) --but it creates a contrasting sort of working group.

So, in order to quiet down everyone, should we bequeath up on any style of generalised system? This muscle not be unreasonable, as the guilds of old had their especial cash (eg, the Masons). If so, the problem is: how do we build these systems from scratch?

If such seperateness seems divisive, a crucial way muscle be to produce a without favoritism widespread arrangement with benefactor deities for the occupations -- this would be no more divisive than the Catholic arrangement of benefactor saints. I, for one, definite enclose surpass in bucketing a libation for Odin and Bragi while I've complete a sale, or accept to (!); whether one believes in deities or not, this is calm down an declaration, a upgrade whose effect may or may not become see-through. There are definite sufficient deities to go around!

Then what widespread arrangement muscle we construct? Count some concepts, images, and archetypes may mean less to us today (although they definite remain in the public intuitive), acquaint with are yet populace which are normal (male and female, and their ages and abilities; earth, sky, natural martial such as weather and tectonics; others?). These essential be a part of any such arrangement as we perform tricks the divinity in ourselves (ya can't get rid of the Goddess and God that easy!).

So tools essential be used? Knives, swords, sickles, cram less charge for us, as they are not so drastically part of our manuscript life (tho innumerable SCA dwell in behest contradict me on the bash. I know, I wear one too...). But saucers and serving dishes setback with us, as well as pots, and hammers, gavels, even the conductor's human resources. These are such instinctive gear, but while high to chalice, paten/pentacle, cauldron, wand, become whatever thing special. So essential we block to use the other tools and quite walk off with other instinctive important to the level of ritual objects? On the other hand, acquaint with is whatever thing authentically awesome in a high-status and skillfully-handled sword. We takes our energy everywhere we gets it, yes?

So accompaniments muscle we make? We would produce to pay attention to even the minor-seeming gear. Would we reverse the elemental system? I regard not, for the elements as they currently stand necessitate, in one form or new-fangled, all aspects of existence. But if we did, how would we do it, and calm down be serious (it's very easy to make absurd quarters!).

[A become aware of on brackish for populace mournful with "archaicisms": brackish has been a purifying agent for ages, and calm down is, in innumerable marked systems -- British, Mediterranean, even Romany. And I regard the enclosure of Koshering nucleus with brackish is as drastically a machine of decontamination as leeching out blood. So the symbology of brackish has less to do with an down technology than with its basic action, acknowledged by innumerable peoples.]

Before I finish, as for the happen of the court, whether we stay or trail or not, the seasons are a part of our lives; weather affects us, and even although we buy nourishment in supermarkets, traveler changes in repeat, reverberation and availability are reminders. Rocket says "summer at last! to me hope a expansive, malodorous peach (arg! how I miss and appear refer to them!). Equally I was a student on the area arrangement at Cal, I was even more in drink with the happen.

And if we block to be familiar with the short of the seasons, we lose drink with the earth, which, if we are to retain her as she essential be unfriendly, should not take on. I am not saying "Ah, for the goode olde days before the nasty Methodological Concentrate estranged us from Father Delve and promoted muck and strip-mining and other land-rape." I am saying that if we are to continue "in beauty upon the earth" as the Hopi say, we essential at nominal be familiar with some tie with her seasonally, if at no other time. The temporary housing and cross-quarters are good time for this, such as it is in earth's changes that she is utmost high-status. Besides which, the feasts and festivals are now, as they produce increasingly bene, an give rise to for a community to tuck, portion, and personal.

But life is surer these days -- we no longer scare the endless night of Distant Solstice, such as we know we won't starve. We are more snug in the physical world such as it is important to us now. Is acquaint with a zenith to ritual any more? Right, yes:

In the end, we should stop mundanity. We should not become so fixed up in Attention that we lose the specialness of what we do, the good sense of experience, the knowledge that we can do marvels.

There is a special responsibility in to the same degree one's own priest, in mastery of one's own powers. We should retain this in observe, with jubilation. Before apologies to O. Henry, we are the Magi.

by Leigh Ann "SeaHawk" Hussey

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